Biography of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Ecumenical Patriarchate
The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s official life of Patriarch Bartholomew: his birth on Imbros in 1940, his studies and ordinations, and his election as Ecumenical Patriarch on 22 October 1991.
Read the text at ec-patr.org ↗The patriarchate’s English biography, a different and less exact text ↗
The page gives the secular name of Bartholomew I, Dimitrios Archontonis, his birth at Agioi Theodoroi on the island of Imbros on 29 February 1940, his ordination as deacon in 1961 and priest in 1969, his election as metropolitan of Philadelphia in 1973 and of Chalcedon in 1990, and his unanimous election as Ecumenical Patriarch on 22 October 1991. It is his own church’s record and is used in this wiki for dates and offices.